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See the thing was that the series was ALREADY halfway over, since Skypeia. I think a common prediction was Water 7 -> Fishman Island -> Elbaf/Pirate Summit -> Raftel. And the Strawhats would be so powerful once Enies Lobby was done that only the the strongest pirates (no emperors back then, so just Whitebeard, Blackbeard, and Shanks) and admirals could stand up against them, and Warlords were just going to be roadbumps. And how could anybody join and still call themselves a Strawhat without even being there for Luffy's declaration of war against the World Government, or ever living on the Going Merry, or not being there when entire crew got bounties and became world famous? They could never fit in; they had simply missed too much. Basically, pre-Sunny/post-Sunny was the old pre-timeskip/post-timeskip, and you could find+replace them on your argument and pretty much get an exact post circa 2007.
So instead of looking for patterns and significance and whatnot I just go with the flow, because anything anybody says about how the story is going to go is probably dead wrong.
Also I'm not touching the Jinbe thing since I agreed to drop everything about that until the Big Mom arc.
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